Described as offering a little bit for everyone [pdf], but at least the injunction was vacated. However, the more sweeping claims by eBay to assert that patent holding companies, which neither license nor use the patents themselves, merit different treatment were rejected (although supported in a concurring, but monority, opinion): eBay Inc. v. MercExchange, L. L. C.

A senior federal law enforcement official tells ABC News the government is tracking the phone numbers we call in an effort to root out confidential sources.

“It’s time for you to get some new cell phones, quick,” the source told us in an in-person conversation.

ABC News does not know how the government determined who we are calling, or whether our phone records were provided to the government as part of the recently-disclosed NSA collection of domestic phone calls.

In the current debate over laws governing music downloads here, some condemn Aziz Ridouan as an advocate of criminal piracy, while others say he represents the new generation of online consumers.

In either case, just about everyone involved listens to what Mr. Ridouan, an 18-year-old high school student, has to say.

“All sides must listen to Aziz because he has an entire generation behind him,” said Julien Dourgnon, economic director of the Consumer’s Federal Union, one of the largest consumer advocacy groups in France. “He may still be in high school, but Aziz has a more profound understanding of copyright law than most lawyers and members of Parliament.”

[...]Â Mr. Ridouan, who began lobbying with protests against America Online when he was 12, first came to the national media’s attention in 2004 as the founder of the Audionautes â€” which roughly translates as “the audio surfers.” The Audionautes is a nonprofit association that provides legal assistance to those accused of illegally downloading music, many of whom were taken to court by the Civil Society of Phonographic Producers, the French equivalent of the Recording Industry Association of America.